Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-15
AN insult TO OUR WOMEN
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AMERICANS
AT THE ENGLISH COURT.


Presentation to Her Highness.
have been asked often BY ladies |
going 20 England this spring as to the
to the Queen. which seems |
suddenly to have changed its character
Instead of being an honor, one would |
Judge from the recent decision of the |
Lord Chamberlain that it is an interna-
tional insult. A lady. any number OF
ladies', may be presented. They may
run by thousands before Her Majesty,
ike the wild horses down the Corso.
but they are not eligible for the court
balls, concerts and subsequent festivi-
lies!
So reads the latest order. Then of
what use is presentations
Can an American lady submit to tbs
insulting discrimination? The Russian
lady. who is presented before or after
her, and the Italian, the French woman,
Is entitled by her presentation to receive
The honors due to lady. She is pre-
sented for that very reason.
Every one knows that presentation
to any Court is merely II recognition of
one rank at home, and a feymesso to
enter the society of the city and coun-
| try TO which our Minister is accredited.
| Else il is firing and formal thing in
which the actors, the receiver and the
received are playing part, merely a
means to an end.
If this is really the Interpretation to
be put upon the last order of the Lord
Chamberlain, it is a far more grievous
cause of war than the fisheries question.
It is thing for Congress to take up;
for the President to inquire INTO and for
Mr.. Bayard to question.
Suppose that Mrs. Cleveland goes to
London. She is presented at Court; the
Grand Duchess of GeroDstein Is pre-
sented at the same drawing groom; Mrs.
Cleveland will not be asked to the
Queens ball; the Duchess will.
Is not that an international insult?
And if Mrs. Cleveland should be invited
TO the Queens ball. then other Ameri-
can ladies are equally ell gible.
The Queen herself is always polite to
Americans. She has reason to be.
They have filed her London of late
with very solvent crowd, who can
hire horses, We dinners, support her
hotels and be a benefact on 10 her
tradespeople, London needs the mon
ey; the Americans have it. and spend
, 1t freely. They are as the world knows.
great fayorites with the Prince and
: Princess of Wales. We need not en-
ter into the recent visit of Oliver Wen
1 dell Holmes, the ovation paid to him,
to assure our readers that the literary
people of America are well received
from the throne down. Important in
termarriages have taken place between
Englishmen and American women
Shall the mothers and sisters of these
. American ladies be displaced at thu
! Court festivities, and the mothers anC
sisters of ladies, no more respected. NJ
more fashionably placed. be admitted
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